Harbarians rock Ryton with a half century win

Seaham's mighty Harbarians took a very notable scalp with a 50-0 victory when they hosted Ryton ll at the Leisure Centre.

Seaham opened the scoring on nine minutes when Dugald Donachie forced a turnover in midfield. Michael Blaney powered for the line, drew in the defence then offloaded a scoring pass to Connor Drinkwater.

Theleadwasdoubledon22 minutes when Jimmy Schofield cleverly took a quick tap penalty and spun right. Brad Robinson and Drinkwater showed deft handling to draw in the defence before sending Ryan Giblin over.

Try number three came on 27 minutes after flanker Scott Fallon won a turnover. Rob Hebron, Dan Cooper, Matty Wharton and Giblin combined well, Drinkwater crossing for his second. Fly half Paul Harvey added the conversion.

James Bromley won a midfield turnover and fended off several tacklers to race in from 35 metres, Harvey adding the extras to make it 24-0 at half-time.

Ben Wood got the scoreboard ticking over again just before the hour, running a clever angle to take Robinson's ball then pick a gap between the centres and sprint over.

Another try was added within two minutes when Sean McCallum exchanged passes with Scott Fallon and Brad Green then outpaced the visiting defence to touch down. Harvey converted.

Heading into the final 10 minutes, Ryton lost their lively flanker with a shoulder injury. They had no substitutes available so Michael Blaney sportingly agreed to don a shirt for them.

Wi thin a minute of the restart, flying wing Ben Turnbull took a ball near halfway and jinked his way through a packed defence before crossing for a converted try.

Hebron rounded off a fine display with a bulldozing 40-metre charge a minute from time, before running out of steam 10 metres short.

But the cherry was added to the cake in the final minute when Ryton had a scrum five metres from their own line. Seaham's pack shunted them off the ball and Drinkwater picked and drove over for a hat-trick try. Harvey's conversion saw his side hit the half-century mark.